Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

A Lifetime of Synergy with Theory and Experiment

Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

Description

This lively autobiography begins with the neighborhood lots of New York where the author began experimenting with organic synthesis, resulting in his first publication while he was still living with his parents. Streitwieser traces his remarkable career from his early research in "wet" chemistry at Berkeley through his work on ab initio theoretical calculations and his "invention" of an entirely new series of compounds, the uranocenes, analogs to the ferrocenes.

Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

A Lifetime of Synergy with Theory and Experiment

Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

Table of Contents

About the writing of this bookBefore collegeHigher education and the armyUniversity of California, BerkeleyCarbon acidityTheoretical chemistryf-Orbital organometallic chemistryHeterocycle polycationsOdds and ends

Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

A Lifetime of Synergy with Theory and Experiment

Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

Reviews and Awards

"Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams, a series of autobiographies by today's organic chemist . . . . The books are a remarkable blend of chemical explanation of the authors' major lines of research, their personal and scientific philosophies, and their reminiscences of family, friends, students, colleagues, and coworkers. One delight is the profusion of photographs." --Chemical Heritage